Ministry of National Infrastructures Office of the Chief Scientist Dr. Shlomo Wald, Chief Scientist Dr. Avraham Arbib, Deputy Chief Scientist Israel Ministry of National Infrastructures

OVERVIEW OF THE MNI R&D OBJECTIVES (1) MNI is promoting four “vertical”, system- oriented, R&D efforts: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: “Green and smart“ cities, homes and industries Local renewables Smart grids: Natural integration of distributed electricity suppliers and customers Better security of supply Efficient usage of resources … Alternatives to oil for transportation and for the chemical industry Future nuclear power 2

OVERVIEW OF THE MNI R&D OBJECTIVES (2) All relevant “horizontal’, technology-oriented, R&D efforts: Renewable Energy – solar, wind, geothermal, energy from waste, biomass…, RE for heating and cooling, RE for fuel production, etc… Clean coal technologies Transportation technologies Basic research in supporting areas: Materials science, High-Temperature Superconductivity etc… 3

THE WORLD’S ADDICTION TO OIL (1) The demand Oil is NOT any more a key factor in electricity production (only ~5%) ~10% for heat (steam, etc.) production But, transportation (ground, marine and air) is heavily dependent on oil (~60%) The chemical industry consumes ~25% of the oil market These two sectors are oil-captive markets The oil demand increases exponentially, especially in developing countries increases exponentially, increases exponentially, 4

THE WORLD’S ADDICTION TO OIL (2) The supply Cartel  unstable and unpredictable prices unstable and unpredictable pricesunstable and unpredictable prices Most of the oil providers are have radical regimes that support terrorism OIL-ALTERNATIVES WILL REDUCE THE UNDESIRED GLOBAL DEPENDENCE ON THE OIL CARTEL 5 Terrorism Larger defense expenses Increase in oil demand Larger income to the oil suppliers More resources to terrorism

ALTERNATIVES TO OIL IN THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR 6 Alternatives to oil in the transportation sector Biofuels Propulsion technologies Chemical fuels Batteries, Fuel cells

The target - To relax the GLOBAL addiction to oil – not limited to the Israeli market The program - Focus on the transportation sector only Explore all alternatives: biofuels, electric cars, hydrogen, synthetic fuels (Fisher-Tropsch)…, efficient engines,… all alternativesall alternatives Support the whole life-cycle of technology development Support all the systems’ components – from technologies to implementation aspects: infrastructures, regulations, etc. Long-term (10 years) commitment of funds, ~ 200 MNIS/year Strong emphasis on international collaboration and international private and public financial contribution 7

The method – Steering committee Project manager (under the PM office) One-stop center for all the activities Use of existing governmental R&D tools: MOITAL Chief Scientist Office, MNI, MOST, ISF, BSF, BIRD, BARD, GIF,… Establishment of up to four centers of excellence in the academe Special venture-capital funds based on 1:3 governmental to private participation International collaboration 8

9 The program budget (PMO) MOITALMNIMOST Planning and Budgeting Committee Total Project management 99 Cutting-Edge Experiments (MNI) 20 One-Stop Center 22 Investment Funds (MOITAL) R&D Grants (*) Centers of Excellence ( ) (PBC) 9615 International Collaboration R&D(*) International implementation efforts (MOITAL) 44 PM’s Prize (MOST) 44 TOTAL (*) All of the participating organizations

10 Time RangeImplementation Objectives Short RangeBiofuels – Scaling up thermal process using fossil resources (coal, NG) and organic wastes  biofuels and biocoal Limited implementation of biofuels – regulatory acts, etc. Electric vehicles – HEV, PHV, EV Other – CNG, H 2, etc. Shale oil Intermediate Range Demonstrating cutting-edge, scaled-up technologies such as Algae,… Thermal and/or chemical cellulose decomposition Agricultural energy plantation for export markets Hydrocarbon production in advanced FT processes Novel batteries and fuel-cells Hydrogen technologies: H 2 on-board, advanced storage, solar H 2 production,… Long RangeImplementation of successful technologies

Solar production of hydrogen Solar production of synthetic fuels Advanced Fisher-Tropsch processes (coal, wastes,…) Artificial photosynthesis Etc. 11

12 Efficiency and innovation in the automotive industry Agam's car engine should allow to achieve 100 miles per gallon, emitting 1/10 of the CO 2 and pollution of a standard car Agam’s Engine

Fuel cells and batteries development BetterPlace – Pioneering deployment of electric cars 13

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There is no doubt that alternatives to oil will attract a lot of interest and funds in this decade There will be opportunities for large-scale pilot and demonstration projects Collaboration within the Israeli academe and R&D institutes, as well as academe-industry, and international cooperation will be strongly encouraged We expect stronger motivation to enter this field by researchers that are not presently active in it There should be opportunities for top scientists from abroad to join Israeli centers of excellence 15

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